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"An Unexpected Mortality Increase in the United States Follows Arrival of the Radioactive Plume From Fukushima: Is There A Correlation?"
by Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman
Initial signs of the global health impact of the Fukushima disaster in the United States.
<http://www.radiation.org/reading/pubs/HS42_1F.pdf>
"North Korea's Justifiable Anger"
by Stansfield Smith
An anti-imperialist perspective on US conflict with North Korea.
<http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/04/10/north-koreas-justifiable-anger/>

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

The summer issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender includes an article on the NCAA's treatment of pregnant women athletes: "By equating pregnancy with temporary disabilities, the comparative model focuses on the disabling rather than enabling physical features of pregnancy." The article also explores women you choose to hide their pregnancy or play through their pregnancy, and men who seek medical leave so that they can care for their children.

Monday, 08 September 2008

Is The Wire Too Cynical? A debate at Dissent: The Wire reinforced white middle-class stereotypes of inner-city
life. The show’s writers, producers, and directors portray most of the
characters—clergy and cops, teachers and principals, reporters and
editors, union members and leaders, politicians and city employees—as
corrupt, cynical, and ineffective. Viewers may have thought they were
seeing the whole picture, but the show’s unrelentingly bleak portrayal
missed what’s hopeful in Baltimore and, indeed, in other major American
cities. In that way, it did the opposite of what its creator, David
Simon, said he wanted the show to do: spur our country to end the
plight of the poor and minorities who live in America’s inner-cities.

Friday, 05 September 2008

In response to a recent New Yorker article about India's devadasis (sacred prostitutes), $pread blogs about poverty and sex workers: "This article's author, William Dalrymple, seems to have an acutely poor
grasp of the complexities of human life, especially when that life
impoverished, and when that life is a woman's."